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Sept. 4, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 4, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchorman, America's truth detector, and the Doctor of Democracy, all combined here in one harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
Great to have you here, folks.
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Do you remember, I guess it was about three weeks or a month ago, the subject of Detroit and what had happened to Detroit came up.
And I had read a book entitled Devil's Night and Other True Tales of Detroit that was published back in the early 90s.
It was by Zev Chaffetz, the author of a biography of me called An Army of One.
And the book had a somewhat markedly different take on Detroit than just chalk it up to unions and liberalism and the Democrat Party.
Clearly, those are factors, but Zev dealt really head-on with the racial component.
And apparently, there was so much interest reignited in the book that the publisher decided to bring it back and reprint it.
And that has happened.
I think it is available on September the 9th, but you can get it now.
You can pre-order it as an e-book.
I think that's how it's going to be really.
I'm not a paperback or e-book.
I'm not sure.
I know e-book.
I know Kendall, iBooks, Barnes ⁇ Noble, Nook, what have you.
And it's called Devil's Night and Other True Tales of Detroit.
It's a fascinating book, and it's highly relevant in understanding today what happened to Detroit and why it's in its current circumstances.
And it's at, again, titled Devil's Night and Other True Tales of Detroit by Zev Z E V Chaffetz.
And I don't think this has not happened in a long time.
The book has been brought back from the dormancy status like this.
But there was so much demand for it.
There were so many people who tried to buy it and couldn't.
And I don't even think there was a mechanism for buying it back then because nobody knew it was going to be reprinted.
But they made the decision some – I mean, this happened lickety-split.
This doesn't happen this fast.
Even when they decide to reprint, it helps to go the e-book version.
But if you were listening back then and fascinated and you wanted to read the book, it really is a fascinating story about Coleman Young and white flight to the suburbs and how Young decided to do battle with them rather than make peace and bring them back.
He doesn't shy away from the racial component of what happened.
In addition to all the other things, Place was run by Liberal Democrats.
I mean, the last Republican mayor in Detroit's 1957, for example.
So I wanted to let you know that your massive interest in this caused the publisher to reprint it.
And I know it's available as an e-book at Amazon, Kendall, iTunes, iBooks, and Barnes and Noble.
I think it's probably Barnes and Noble, too.
I don't know.
Zeph told me, I just don't remember if it's going to be a paperback as well.
Now, I want to return, ladies and gentlemen, to the audio soundbites because John Kerry in his testimony yesterday was literally embarrassing to everybody involved.
All they wanted him to do, the Democrats, all they wanted him to do was to, as best he could, assure everybody that whatever we do in Syria, it isn't going to involve anybody's kids being sent into the country.
That's all they really wanted him to do.
But he's so self-absorbed and has to demonstrate his intelligence, his knowledge, and his sophisticated understanding of the ways of foreign policy, that he just started speaking in almost indecipherable ways.
And Rand Paul actually decided to cross the T and dot the I on this.
Basically, Rand Paul told Kerry, you're making Congress into a joke.
Now, I would add the Republicans in their own way are helping that to happen.
But just in the specific confines of the Kerry testimony yesterday, here is Rand Paul during the Q ⁇ A at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing yesterday.
If we do not say that the Constitution applies, if we do not say explicitly that we will abide by this vote, you're making a joke of us.
You're making us into theater.
And so we play constitutional theater for the president.
If this is real, you will abide by the verdict of Congress.
You're probably going to win.
Just go ahead and say it's real.
And let's have a real debate in this country and not a meaningless debate that in the end you lose and you say, oh, well, we had the authority anyway.
We're going to go ahead and go to war anyway.
Now, what's interesting about that is, Snerdley, what's the conventional wisdom on this?
The president is going to get his authorization or not.
Well, let me tell you, early on, over the weekend, the conventional wisdom was he wasn't going to get it.
And that was the reason why he was asking for it.
He wouldn't get it.
He could then blame the Republicans for all of the deaths in Syria.
But it has changed.
And now, whether or not he'll get the grant is up in the air.
And Rand Paul just said, look, you're going to win this.
You're going to get your use of force authorization.
So why don't we just have a real debate?
He really called him on it.
What are you guys doing theater up here for?
And that's exactly right.
And they're putting on a political show.
And they're putting on a political show for the 2014 elections to help Obama and protect Obama and all that.
Up to a point, folks, it is what it is, politics what it is.
And to expect there to be no politics in politics is not real.
And I'm not doing that.
But committing American, projecting American military force to stop the use of chemical weapons, that's not a game.
That's not a budget bite or battle with the Republicans.
So it's got some gravity to it.
It's just not being treated that way.
All of this is being used as theater to further the symbolism over substance of all the participants in the regime, particularly Kerry and Obama.
So Rand Paul says, look, go ahead and tell us.
It's real.
We're going to do this.
Let's have a real debate, not a meaningless debate, that in the end you lose and you say, oh, well, we have the authority anyway, we're going to go ahead.
His point is, the president has said he wants a use of force authorization, but that he doesn't need it.
And so what Rand Paul, why don't you guys just come out and say, you're going to do this no matter what happens here.
He's really got a good point.
What are we doing?
Why are we even having this debate?
Because you guys are going to do what you want to do anyway.
Why just say so?
What's all this meandering around?
Now, Basher, Basher is watching this and thinking, you know what?
This is so convoluted, they may never get around to attacking me because they're so – I wouldn't blame Basher if he calculates that by the time all this is over, Obama will want to move back into immigration or something.
If Obama can make his point and score big without having to launch anything, he'll do it.
But if Obama launches, if he does anything, it's going to be very limited, as precise as they can make it.
And then rest assured, the media is going to call it the greatest military operation in history as they march inexorably toward the 2014 elections.
So this morning on Fox and Friends, they interviewed Rand Paul.
Steve Doocy talked to him and said, Senator, I know you said yesterday the resolution is probably going to pass the Senate, but you could do one thing to slow things down, and that would be a filibuster.
That only temporarily slows things down.
If you might delay something 12 or 13 hours, what I will try to do is I will try to lead the opposition.
Nobody in my state is for this.
Not one person has come up to me.
It's vastly unpopular.
Ask our soldiers.
If you could ask our soldiers, are they ready for another deployment next time in Syria?
They'll say not, no, but hell no.
America's not ready for another war.
Well, no, that's true.
The polling data, no matter where you look, six in ten, ABC News, six in ten oppose a U.S.-only strike in Syria.
It's a closer division of the allies.
What allies?
We don't have any allies except maybe for France.
Everybody's bumping out of this.
Nobody wants to be part of it.
Everybody is the Tea Party.
Well, ask our soldiers.
You don't ask the soldiers.
They get orders and they go.
So that's a bit feeble, but it doesn't matter.
He's right in the sense that there is not any public support for this.
It doesn't matter, though, because that's not what this is about.
Now, I mentioned earlier in the program that Wolf Blitzer on CNN apparently thought that McCain was actually playing poker online on his iPhone.
That he actually had opponents that there was money on the line, that he wasn't just playing a game.
Last night on the Situation Room on CNN, Wolf Blitzer interviewed McCain, and he said, during the three and a half hour hearing, at one point, you were playing a little poker on your iPhone.
What was that all about?
Over a three and a half hour period.
Occasionally I get a lethal bored, and so I resorted.
But the worst thing about it is I lost thousands of dollars in this game.
Did you what?
I lost thousands of dollars.
I probably, well, you know, it was a poker game.
And, you know, you play with play money, you know, that.
But you were playing for real.
You were playing for real.
All right.
I want to clarify that.
Senator Kazakhstan.
You're going to say you lost thousands of dollars.
Thousands, thousands of fake dollars.
Thousands of fake dollars.
Okay, sorry.
That's much better.
You see what I mean about this being embarrassing.
I mean, we can all sit here and laugh at it, but here we have the supposed maverick of the Senate playing poker during hearings on whether or not to launch an attack of cruise missiles into Syria, telling Wolf Blitz that he lost $1,000.
And Blitz is, oh my God, you lost $1,000 during a committee hearing?
And Wolf had to tell him, play money, play money.
I swear, the prospect of invading another country and in the Middle East where chemical weapons are involved with radical Muslim extremists waiting to take over bores Senator McCain.
Okay, here are the details.
Devil's Night and other True Tales of Detroit is now out as an e-book came out yesterday.
So that would be Amazon Kendall, iTunes, iBooks, and I'm assuming Barnes and Noble Nook.
And Paperback is on September 17th, which is about three days before you can get the new iPhone 5S or 5C, depending what you want.
So you ought to have money left over.
Here's Darryl in Prospect Pennsylvania.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, hi, Rush.
It's a real pleasure to talk with you, and I've been trying to talk to you for a long time.
Well, I'm glad you made it through here, Darrell.
Hey, great.
I wanted to talk to you about Syria.
And it just amazes me that we have all this talk about a military strike, and no one seems to remember that we have the greatest president, the brightest guy ever, who was elected in 2008 on the promise that he would bring our troops home.
In addition to that, he also said that he would sit down with anybody to work things out.
Now, Syria is a civil war of Muslims.
Obama has a Muslim background, certainly qualified.
He should be over there talking with the parties.
He's got a brother that lives in a hut.
There's no question.
His dad.
You know, you make an interesting point, Darrell.
No, I'm serious.
This guy did say he'd talk to anybody, and he left the impression that just by talking to them, he could talk them down and that he would do that.
That the days of this kind of stuff are over.
This kind of stuff is never, ever going to happen again.
These days of the U.S. being disrespected and unloved and all that because of George W. Bush had come to a screeching.
In fact, you know, Darrell, you could go so far as to say Obama even gave his voters, the country, the whole campaign, the impression that no dictator would ever do this thing again if he were elected.
That these kind of weapons would never be used because the world was going to become a beautiful place.
Well, yeah, and he goes around talking in Sweden about global warming, trying to convince everybody.
Why doesn't he just go back into Syria and say to the parties there, let's resolve this?
Well, that's, look, that's another good point.
And I made it in a feeble way earlier, but here he is in Sweden talking about this business in Syria.
And then he launches into a global warming pitch.
And he's going to Russia.
And he snubbed Putin because of the ban on gay athletes at the Russian Olympics, whatever.
And he's going to go meet with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people in Russia.
It's just, I don't know.
Everything is just domestic politics and appealing to the well, one of the things that bothers me along with that is I don't hear anyone else mentioning whether it's in Congress.
I mean, he brings up he wants to make a military strike after drawing a line in the sand.
And now no one says, well, no, wait a minute.
You want to resolve things by talking to them.
Why don't we try that first?
Or have him do it himself?
I'd be happy to give him a parachute to drop him into Syria.
Well, I think what they would say, Darrell, is that they've done that.
Hillary went over there and talked to him.
Pelosi went over and talked to him.
Kerry had dinner with him a bunch of times.
And they were really impressed.
They came out of these meetings and they called him a great guy and a reformer.
And I think they would tell you that they've talked to him and that they're now shocked and saddened and blah, blah, all that.
But you're right.
I mean, it is true to say that Barack Obama left the impression with people that if he were elected, this stuff wouldn't even happen.
He wouldn't be required to talk to these people because they would not be our enemy anymore.
Once we got rid of Bush, there'd be no reason to hate America anymore.
And if we replace Bush with Obama, why certain countries in the world actually might feel closer to us than ever before?
I mean, this was clearly an impression that was left and made.
Why are we hearing about sanctions?
Give sanctions a chance.
But you're right.
It's an excellent point.
Where are the words?
Where are the doctors?
Where are the nurses?
Where's the clean water?
Where are all of the other devices?
I want to grab somebody, 27.
John Kerry, we're back to him.
I love these Kerry soundbites.
He was back on Capitol Hill today making another mess.
And he was testifying this time at the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing.
And this is interesting timing.
After yesterday's show, this is what he said today.
I used to prosecute cases.
I ran one of the largest district attorney's offices in America.
And I can tell you beyond a reasonable doubt, the evidence proves that the Assad regime prepared this attack and that they attacked exclusively opposition-controlled or contested territory.
At some point in the appropriate setting, you will learn additional evidence which came to us even today.
So I got big evidence.
It just arrived here today.
I can prove that what you heard on the radio yesterday is not true.
This Bdansky guy who said that the rebels launched the attack with our assistance.
That's not true because I was a former prosecutor and I've got evidence that I'm someday I'm going to tell you about.
But I know this stuff.
It's a joke.
Ha!
Welcome back.
It's great to have you, Rush Limboy, here on the EIB network.
And 800-282-2882, the email address, LrushboyEIBNet.com.
Let me go to Chris in Manhattan.
Hey, Chris, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
I'm fine.
Thank you.
It's an honor to speak with you, and thank you for all you do.
Appreciate that, sir.
Over the years, I've heard you say that you would always tell us when it was time to worry.
And you still seem kind of optimistic that things are going to turn out.
Everything I see is that things will turn out all right.
Everything I see seems to indicate the opposite.
I mean, you have the IRS about to run our health care.
The government's spying on us instead of us spying on the government.
Just everything is going wrong.
It just seems that anything Obama wants to do is against the United States that we've kind of grown up knowing.
Let me tell you what troubles me more than anything.
All of what you say is true.
And we've known it was going to happen.
We knew you and I, I mean, we knew who Obama was, is, and what a leftist socialist tendencies wants to do.
Obamacare, building government, controlling people.
That's what they do.
We're not surprised.
The two things here, the thing that worries me the most is there's no political pushback.
I don't know what's happened to the Republican Party.
Chris, one of the reasons I'm optimistic, and I'm not falsely optimistic, this is major what's happened to this country.
Some of this stuff appears to be within our lifetimes anyway, irreversible, such as Obamacare, if it actually is fully implemented, the empowerment of the IRS and all that.
I understand that, but the majority of the American people don't want this.
I know Obama got elected.
The election is ⁇ it wouldn't have happened if there had been a viable Republican Party alternative pushback.
4 million Republican voters stayed home in 2012.
I don't know why the Republican Party, we don't have any representation out here, you and me, Chris.
I agree with you.
I mean, there's just such an acceptance.
I mean, I try to talk to people about what's going on, and they look at me like I'm from Mars.
I have no idea what I'm talking about.
Wait a minute.
You're in Manhattan.
You're in the devil's armpit, as it were.
But we still lost.
That's what I felt.
I felt that, you know, okay, I'm in Manhattan.
And I have another question about the election if you give me the chance.
Cher, go ahead.
Okay.
You remember before the election, there was all these people voting ahead of time.
And on the news, you actually heard about people saying they would walk into the voting booth and they would vote for Romney and Obama's name would come up.
And there were all kinds of irregularities.
And nobody ever addressed it.
And there was also some kind of talk that Soros owned or bought the companies that counted the votes.
Was there any truth to any of that?
I'm sure that there were instances of that happening.
But I don't think that explains Obama's win.
I'm sure that happened.
And I know that the Democrats want to continue to be able to corrupt the voting process.
Their opposition to photo ID to vote is all the proof anybody needs for that contention.
Let me try.
Look, anytime the question of optimism comes up, and I get it a lot, how do you stay so optimistic?
It's a fine line here because nobody wants to hear false, phony optimism that's not grounded, not rooted in reality.
I mean, Norman Vincent Peel is fine, but there has to be a foundation for the optimism to take root in.
And I don't want to create the impression that what's happened here is no different than what's happened in the past in America.
We can overcome it and we can turn it back.
We've had things happen that haven't happened in this country before.
The Constitution may as well not exist in the Democrat Party today.
But the big problem, if I may say again, and please look at me when I say this, by every measure available to us, polling data, everything but election returns, and of course they may matter more than the polls in this case, but issue by issue by issue by issue, the vast majority of the American people oppose what is happening.
Now, that doesn't explain the election returns.
But if there had been some pushback, I said it earlier.
You and I, right now, Chris, do not have any representation in Washington.
The party that's supposed to represent us is afraid to.
They are more inclined to either be quiet or to give the appearance of not opposing Obama because they're scared to do it for some reason.
And I think one of the primary reasons or explanations for that is race.
I just think it's paralyzing.
I think the accusation of racism and the serious criticism being rejected because it's said to be racist in its origins just has them, I really do think it has them befuddled.
And there's also a part of the Republican Party in Washington that is of Washington and not the country.
They are part of the ruling class.
It's Washington versus the rest of the people.
But the reason I'm optimistic is that we haven't lost the people yet.
All we need is some representation.
And I'm going to get in trouble for saying this.
How do I say this?
If the next Democrat presidential candidate is not African American, it's going to change everything about the way the Republican Party operates.
I think the Republican Party is frozen.
They are afraid to oppose anything that involves Obama and the Democrats right now because of race.
It is just the way it is used as a hammer against Obama's opponents has been very effective on them.
And I think this presidency is a one-off, but there's so much damage that's been done by this president that is different than the damage that Clinton did, for example, or LBJ.
But we did come back from FDR.
We came back from Woodrow Wilson.
Well, we did.
Capitalism returned and became dominant, but the roots that FDR planted continue to grow.
This has taken 50 years to happen.
It didn't happen overnight, and it's a monumental thing to turn this back.
And the idea that we may still have a majority of the people, but it's not big.
And there's a sizable contingent of our population that is apparently totally happy to accept the status quo because they're doing okay with it.
So it just makes more sense to me to be optimistic and hopeful than defeatist and negative.
That's not going to get us anywhere.
It's not going to accomplish anything.
It really isn't.
And no matter what, Chris, we remain individuals and we all only get one life.
And I'm just, I'll be damned if I'm going to let the Democrat Party ruin my life.
I mean, I'm going to do what I can to stop them, but I'm going to enjoy my life as best I can no matter what happens.
I am not going to cave or give up or become apocalyptic because of what they do.
You know, I'll oppose them and fight them here on the radio and whatever other venues I happen to get into, but I'm not going to go home and be depressed.
I'm not going to go home and mope.
I'm not going to go home and really worry about things I can't control, which is the low information voter and the other people in this country that don't seem to be troubled by this.
I'm just going to continue to try to make them here and to teach them and so forth.
And that, to me, requires optimism.
I hear the phone ringing.
I'm sorry, I'm still on.
But one last thing what you said about race, and you were going to get in trouble for something.
So I'm just going to say something.
My soon-to-be ex-wife is a doctor.
During the election before the election, she was talking to another doctor, a friend of hers, who's black.
And she goes, no names mentioned, don't worry.
She says, I know Obama's done a horrible job, but he's a black man.
It's his first time, and I have to vote for him again.
Now, if we would have said this about a white person, like I'm voting for him because he's white, I'm not voting for a black person.
I mean, that would have been all over the place.
But there was so much of this.
So many people just voted for him based on his race.
I'm glad you brought that up because there's a phrase for that, Chris.
The people you're talking about, and they are all over the media, and they are the worst racists of all.
Because let me define what you just explained there.
It's called the soft bigotry of low expectations.
What you just said was that this white person you were talking about really thinks we need to feel sorry for Obama.
And we need to feel sorry for him because he's black.
And we need to feel sorry for him because he's black because, well, you know, slavery and racism.
And that is the way every white liberal looks at it.
Whoever coined this phrase came up with a brilliant way of explaining liberal white racism, the soft bigotry of low expectations, this never-ending sympathy for all of the horrible things that happened in the past.
And it's not fair to expect greatness.
It's not fair to expect We've got to allow them not to be very good because that means we understand how hard they've had it.
It's the worst racism there is because it lowers expectations, it excuses poor performance.
It's just and they're the ones that perpetrate it.
And it's rooted in their own guilt that they are attempting to assuage or feel better about themselves by voting for Obama.
Even though they friend admitted they didn't do a good job, but I'm like, he needs a second chance, guys.
First black president, come on, who are we talking about here?
That means they feel guilty.
Not for anything they did, but just for things that have happened, and they're trying to get rid of the guilt.
They don't want to feel guilty.
And so, look at me, I'm not a racist.
I support the black president.
Soft bigotry of low expectations.
And they perpetuate this.
And the thing that that does delegitimizes every genuine success an African American has.
White liberals do this.
This is the exclusive province of white liberals.
They run around and they talk about colorblind society.
Look what they do when they encounter somebody truly colorblind like me.
They call that racism.
I'm not afraid to criticize Obama.
He's the president of the United States.
I don't care what his skin color is.
His policies stink as far as I'm concerned of doing great damage.
I don't, the fact that he's black does not matter to me.
I'm colorblind.
He's president.
All that matters to me about Obama is his policies and what his ideas are.
I don't care about all that other extraneous surface stuff because it doesn't matter.
But it's used as an excuse for either incompetence or radicalism or what have you.
Does great damage.
Anyway, don't let these people ruin your life.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
John Kerry said today at a Washington hearing on Syria that Arab countries have offered to pay for the entirety of unseating Bashir Assad if we will take the lead militarily.
We're the help, folks.
We're the temporary agency.
Unbelievable.
See you tomorrow.
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